{"id":1546,"date":"2013-01-16T05:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T05:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2013-01-16T06:45:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T06:45:05","slug":"looking-back-at-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/looking-back-at-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dSavannah's2012 was interesting, to say the least. I got a book contract in January, and my book, A Spicy Secret<\/em><\/a>, #22 in the Annie\u2019s Attic Mystery<\/a> series, came out in December. (It\u2019s still kinda surreal to see a book with
\nmy name on it on my bookshelf<\/em>.) (And also weird to have people ask for my autograph!<\/em>)<\/p>\n

At the urging of other writers, I started tweeting<\/a>. I also started this blog; my first entry, Start at the Beginning<\/a>, went live on August 11. In 2012, my blog got 2,200 views from 27 countries, including Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, India, Germany, Austria, and Australia. That may not seem like a lot, but for a newbie blogger, I find it thrilling. Thank you all<\/b> for stopping by!!!<\/p>\n

I published 55 posts, 26 of them artists\/writers answering The Questions<\/a>, and several more helping with book launches. In case you\u2019re curious, the questions that received the most answers from my guests, with 12 each, were #5, What skill(s) do you wish you\u2019d learned as a kid?; and #8, Your favorite book growing up? Your favorite book now?<\/p>\n

For fun, I read 47 books, down from 61 in 2011. (Reading for work means less reading for fun.) My favorites were (in the order I read them):<\/p>\n